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Re: RFC: Allow EXPLAIN to Output Page Fault Information

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, torikoshia <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, rjuju123@gmail.com, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: 2025-02-09T18:05:42Z
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  1. Avoid leaking system path from pg_available_extensions

  2. Enable BUFFERS with EXPLAIN ANALYZE by default

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I'm somewhat against this patch, as it's fairly fundamentally incompatible
> with AIO. There's no real way to get information in this manner if the IO
> isn't executed synchronously in process context...

Even without looking ahead to AIO, there's bgwriter, walwriter, and
checkpointer processes that all take I/O load away from foreground
processes.  I don't really believe that this will produce useful
numbers.

			regards, tom lane